Special Issue on Slavery and Oppression

The December 1958 issue of Uramado is a large illustrated fiction anthology built around a special feature on slavery, oppression, captivity, and coercive authority. Its contents range from modern crime melodrama and foreign-set adventure to historical fiction, grotesque fantasy, psychological suspense, and serial period narrative. The cover presents a shackled woman beside a heavy iron ball, while the formal contents spread frames bondage, servitude, imprisonment, forced labor, and escape as the issue’s governing motifs. The opening sequence establishes the magazine’s strongly visual character. “Strange Tale of Nude-Woman Island” is presented as a colorful illustrated adventure involving abduction, underground passages, secret ceremonies, masked captors, and a community of imprisoned women. Fujisawa Osamu’s “Young Nude” follows as a photographic portfolio of studio nudes posed against a dark background, emphasizing bodily contour, flexibility, and sculptural composition. Nakajima Kimi’s illustrated narrative “The Scarlet Crape-Paper Tale” then shifts to an Edo-period setting of seduction, betrayal, confinement, and violence. The central body combines modern and historical stories united by unequal power. “The Price of a Virgin” follows a criminal conspiracy involving an underworld organization, sexual manipulation, narcotics, murder, and an endangered woman. The main special feature begins with “Palace of Troubled Slaves,” depicting a woman sold in a slave market, transported to a fortified estate, restrained, punished, and compelled to perform. “The Cage of Hell,” “Prostitution Slave Street,” “Tragic Wish at Hatchōbori,” and “Strange Suicides” extend the issue’s interest in incarceration, criminal exploitation, hidden institutions, urban vice, and mysterious death. Later contributions broaden the geography and tone. “Prostitute Rain,” “Jar Hell,” “Calendar of Fragrant Skin,” and “White Flame” mix erotic obsession with crime and psychological menace. “The Foreign Magazine’s Female Slaves” explicitly treats representations of female bondage in overseas publications, giving the issue a documentary and comparative interlude. Historical and adventure stories such as “The Ivory Throne,” “The Poisonous Yellow Moth,” “The Slave-Ship Incident,” and “The Female Slave’s Jewel” explore colonial fantasy, forced transport, rebellion, dangerous rulers, and contested possession. The closing third returns increasingly to Japanese period fiction and the supernatural. “Earless Grass,” “The Bodhisattva of the Cellar,” and “The Incarnated Ecstatic Female Buddha” employ religious imagery, hidden chambers, transformation, and grotesque revelation. The final installment of “Skull Lantern” closes the issue with an extended Edo-period tale of abduction, torture, criminal pursuit, and rescue. Editorial matter, publication information, contribution notices, and advertisements complete an issue whose visual and narrative identity rests on the spectacle of domination and the repeated possibility of resistance, flight, revenge, or reversal.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Strange Tale of Nude-Woman Island	Natsumoto Keinosuke	11–18	6 –13
Young Nude	Fujisawa Osamu	19–26	14 –19
The Scarlet Crape-Paper Tale	Nakajima Kimi	27–35	20 –28
The Price of a Virgin	Gamage Kazumi	36–49	29 –42
Palace of Troubled Slaves	Odagiri Sō	50–61	43 –54
The Cage of Hell	Shima Fuji	62–75	55 –68
Prostitution Slave Street	Iida Toyokichi	76–91	69 –84
Tragic Wish at Hatchōbori	Hashizume Hikoshichi	92–103	85 –96
Strange Suicides	Kanbe Yūichi	104–109	97 –102
Prostitute Rain	Erigaki Zan	110–119	103 –112
Jar Hell	Kawaguchi Naoki	120–133	113 –126
Calendar of Fragrant Skin	Iwahori Hikaru	134–146	127 –139
White Flame	Kōno Haruo	147–153	140 –146
An Eerie Notebook: Do Not Open That Box	Sasaki Chikara	154–162	147 –155
Female Slaves in Foreign Magazines	Tōge Kōsuke	163–170	156 –163
The Ivory Throne	Tachibana Shintarō	171–177	164 –170
Bubble Hell	Matsui Yoriko	178–187	171 –180
The Captive Beauty	Hada Hikaru	188–201	181 –194
Hebiko Island	Magaki Shin	202–213	195 –207
The Poisonous Yellow Moth	Mizorogi Jakushi	214–225	208 –219
The Slave-Ship Incident	Dan Tatsuji	226–237	220 –231
The Female Slave’s Jewel	Fujimi Miyako	238–250	232 –244
Earless Grass	Sasamoto Tōru	251–257	245 –251
The Bodhisattva of the Cellar	Enjōji Tatsu	258–269	252 –263
The Incarnated Ecstatic Female Buddha	Umeda Kusuo	270–277	264 –270
Skull Lantern	Shimamoto Haruo	278–299	271 –292

The formal table of contents appears on PDF viewer page 4. The issue is identified internally as Volume 3, Number 15 and as the December issue. Printed pagination generally corresponds to PDF viewer pagination plus seven beginning with printed page 36, although the unnumbered cover, advertisements, illustrated opening leaves, photographic portfolio, and title page create an irregular offset in the front matter. Several contributors use uncommon pen names, and provisional romanizations are identified in the relevant notes. The title printed for “Prostitute Rain” is unusually stylized and may admit an alternative reading. The island name in “Hebiko Island” and the surname of its author also require human verification. Minor staining, edge loss, dark reproduction, gutter obstruction, and occasional clipped characters occur throughout the issue, but the article sequence remains identifiable. PDF viewer page 293 contains publication information, contributor notices, and closing advertisements.